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From "The Practice of Programming" by Brian W Kernighan & Rob Pike:

Another effective debugging technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind. I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer centre kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counsellor.

print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

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Re^3: Move along, nothing to see here . . .
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2012 at 14:05 UTC

    Also known as teddy bear debugging , mirror debugging, empty room debugging, talking to yourself, Rubber Duck method of debugging, say it out loud George , sing into that hairbrush ...

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